Flite Test – Soldering Battery Connectors – FLITE TIP

Flite Test – FLITE TIP Soldering Battery Connectors A Hobby King sponsored segment. A lot of you have asked for this… so we took the time to show you how we do it. Learning to solder battery connectors is essential in the RC world. So many brands of batteries! So many connectors! Just pick a connector style, buy a bunch of them, and solder away. Tips: 1. Only cut ONE WIRE at a time. 2. Use flux to prep your surface. 3. Slide on the heat shrink over the wire before you solder. 4. Make sure both surfaces are hot enough to accept the solder. 5. Don’t get the connector lead too hot, or you’ll melt the connector. 6. ABSOLUTELY double check you polarity. Have fun and be careful. www.flitetest.comVideo Rating: 4 / 5

I’ve destroyed three already because when im soldering and i try to reheat the connector after tinning to put the wire in, the solder doesnt heat up, but the plastic melts? and the connector moves around and the connector plastic is all melted

Great and informative video, guys, but I did not understand the “flux” part.
1) What is Flux?
2) Where? can I get it?
3) Why is Flux so important? Can I not just solder without Flux?
Can someone please explain?

i accidently started to cut both wires at once but it started to smoke so i stopped and watched this video later? i did solder the batteries right but now i cant get more than a few seconds of power out of it what happened?

Good info, nicely produced. I’d add that after tinning your solder cups, use scrap wire with some flux in it or Solder Wick to clean the cup of excess solder. Cup should be empty, with the walls just plated with solder. Put a? bit of flux in the empty cup, slide the tinned wire in all the way, then add heat/solder, and viola! A proper solder joint with no voids or oxidized solder, and the ‘lay’ of the wire strands are not disturbed by trying to push cold solder out of the cup.

…of course you can do what you like, i only wanted to point out that in most modern tin-solders or fluxing agents they dont use colophony anymore, or in addition they use chemical? additives that are not very healthy…so allways read the fine print

Nice short and to the point soldering video. I would like to pass on a tip, though. When transferring wires from one connector to the other, only cut off and solder one wire at a time. This? way it is almost impossible to “cross the streams”.

PS – still would like to get a hat or shirt. How about a Flite Test neckstrap?

just making 2 statements. neither has anything to do with the other. Statement #1 Long intros suck. Period. Yours is nice and professionally done, however, well done suckness is still suckness
Statement? #2 I hope you guys don’t say only good things aout Hoy King products only becausbe they sponsor you. I, and I think most other viewers, want honest test reviews, not a 10 minute commercial

Yeah, I’d like to see some more non HK stuff, because, let’s? be honest, we all know that they are not the greatest when it comes to planes. More E-flite/Parkzone stuff etc. like when you guys first started! I bet the majority have more of that stuff